A Passion to Lead

Meet Our Newest Board Member

Joe Daguanno- Marketing Chair

Joe is a Digital Marketing Consultant with Mid-West Family Marketing in Madison.  He has been with Mid-West for over 23 years (with a two-year stint at Adams Outdoor Advertising) and has held such positions as Director of Sales, General Manager, and CEO.  He has helped hundreds of clients over the years with branding and marketing concepts and tactics with both traditional and new, and innovative media.   Joe is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in Communication Arts and is on the Alumni Board of Directors for the Communication Arts school at the UW.   

 Joe is married to his beautiful wife Lynn and has four children, Lindsay, Laurel, Jack and Charlie.  Joe has been actively involved in our community for years assisting such non for profits like United Way of Dane County, The Rainbow Project, Gilda’s Club, The Exchange Center for Child Abuse Prevention and the University of Wisconsin Children’s Hospital.  Joe has coached football for many years and is very active in the Oregon community.  

 Joe was so moved by the passion, commitment and drive from the GiGi’s Board of Directors through his work with Adams Outdoor Advertising (which is the organization that donated the GiGi’s Madison outdoor advertising campaign) and believes in the GiGi’s Playhouse mission so much that he was motivated to join our Board.  Joe hopes to continue to make GiGi’s Playhouse the gold standard by which others strive to reach.  

Thank you and WELCOME Joe- we are thrilled to have you on our team!